English
Etymology
From shrove + -tide.
Noun
Shrovetide (plural Shrovetides)
- The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- Royal Shrovetide football
Translations
period of three days
- Belarusian: ма́сленіца f (másljenica), ма́сьленіца f (másʹljenica)
- Catalan: Carnestoltes (ca) m pl
- Cornish: ynys m
- Czech: masopust (cs) m
- Danish: fastelavn c
- Erzya: мастя (masťa)
- Estonian: vastlad pl; (Orthodox) võinädal
- Faroese: føstuinngangur m, fastalávint f, føstulávint f
- Finnish: laskiainen (fi); (Orthodox) voiviikko
- Galician: entroido (gl) m
- German: Fastnachtszeit f, Fastnacht (de) f, Fasching (de) m, Karneval (de) m
- Ingrian: Maslitsa
- Irish: an Inid f
- Middle English: fastingang
- Manx: Yn Ynnyd f
- Old Danish: fastelaghen
- Polish: ostatki m, zapusty m, mięsopust (pl) m
- Portuguese: entrudo (pt) m
- Russian: ма́сленица (ru) f (máslenica), ма́сленая неде́ля f (máslenaja nedélja)
- Slovak: fašiangy m pl, mäsopust m (dated)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: zapust m
- Spanish: carnestolendas (es) f pl
- Swedish: fastlagen (sv) c
- Ukrainian: ма́сниця f (másnycja)
- Welsh: Ynyd m
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